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New figures for unemployment claims, out today, are up 78,000. That's a BIG jump over the last report. While CA had been up to date on reporting, OR and HI were not, so that accounted for part of the jump. (The previous report "estimated" what OR and HI would be). NJ applications are up a lot for the newest report. One things it would be as a result of Sandy ... but NY applications are not as dramatically higher. But the highest number of new applications are for ... OH and PA. With the war on coal just beginning, I'd expect that will continue to get worse. Makes you begin to wonder about the timing on this info, doesn't it?

New figures out now indicate contraction of manufacturing in October ... including the auto industry.

Guess OH voters really did get suckered. PA has been a blue state for a long time, so not as surprising. Maybe the results of the war on coal will get their attention next time? And maybe the EPA will have begun leaning on fracking as well.

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New figures for unemployment claims, out today, are up 78,000. That's a BIG jump over the last report. While CA had been up to date on reporting, OR and HI were not, so that accounted for part of the jump. (The previous report "estimated" what OR and HI would be). NJ applications are up a lot for the newest report. One things it would be as a result of Sandy ... but NY applications are not as dramatically higher. But the highest number of new applications are for ... OH and PA. With the war on coal just beginning, I'd expect that will continue to get worse. Makes you begin to wonder about the timing on this info, doesn't it?

New figures out now indicate contraction of manufacturing in October ... including the auto industry.

Guess OH voters really did get suckered. PA has been a blue state for a long time, so not as surprising. Maybe the results of the war on coal will get their attention next time? And maybe the EPA will have begun leaning on fracking as well.

They were willing suckers...useful idiots more or less. Obama's "Rules for Radicals" methodology works on those who don't mind being led by the nose...